On the DJ block since 1992, if
you are an amateur of that big play we call nightlife, chances are you
either danced, got drunk or got annoyed while Red D was playing some
records.

Sure, I could say that I was influenced by *insert credible genre of music
here* or that I got my big break at *insert name of credible legendary but
now closed club here*, but who really needs to know? Let’s just say that
when playing some records, throwing the odd party and running a bit of a
label, the following things might have been important in some way: DJ
Hooligan, Music Man, Tina Turner, new beat, Boccaccio, rave, trance, Paul
Van Dyk, Cherry Moon, Cirao, DJ Phi-Phi, high school party needing a dj,
Nonkel Frans, tape trading,
Love Parade, Fuse, Detroit, techno, Benoelie & Biens, Chicago, house,
Cajual,Silo, Derrick Carter, Kinky People, Clues, Deinze, Decadance,
internet, E-bay,Discogs, Rare Records in Eindhoven, Gangstarr,
DEMF/Movement, Tyree Cooper, We Play House, Scott Ferguson, Reggie Dokes,
Lady Linn, disco, Rendez-Fou, Sunday Matinee, Larry Heard, Charlatan, San
Soda, Charles Webster, We Play House Recordings, Eenders Halle,
Tomorrowland, FihP, Panorama Bar, copywriting & Music Mania.

All the rest you can ask me whilst having a beer together, or you could just
come and listen when I play.

It had been many years since the original members of Magnapop had played
together. In 2012, when the Atlanta record store where Shannon was working
needed a benefit concert to help stay afloat, he asked the three other
original members of the band to join him onstage. We said yes in an instant.
When we stood onstage together again it was effortless, just like it used to
be, and with all the intensity of when we first played together. In
a word, it was a beautiful feeling. It was dramatically different from the
feeling of playing with other bands. It still feels fresh to us.

After that show, we played a one-off gig opening for Juliana Hatfield and
friends in Washington, DC. It was clear that the four of us - Linda, Ruthie,
Shannon and David – wanted to work together again and that a tour would be a
blast. More than anything, we wanted to come back and play once again in our
beloved Europe – and, most of all, in the Netherlands and Belgium, where
people have made a place in their hearts for songs like 'Favourite Writer',
'Lay It Down', 'Slowly, Slowly' and 'Open the Door'.

Expect high energy and intensity in the original Magnapop lineup's first
shows in Europe in two decades. It will be loud, furious and harmonious. We
will bring it.